On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:58:55 -0700, Rod Miller wrote:

> I am attempting to install Sun's distribution of Mozilla1.4 on my OW/SOL
> 8/ Ultra5. All I want to do is pop mail and browse. An associate runs it
> ok on OW and says I don't need gnome et al if I'm not going to be
> compiling it.
>
> Sooooo, I hacked the install script, mozinstall, to install just the
> Mozilla packages SUNWmozgm SUNWmozmail SUNWmoznav SUNWmozchat.
>
> The install of SUNWmozgm works. The others fail with the message
>
> pkgadd: ERROR: no package associated with <SUNWmozmail>
>
> When I run pkgadd in the directory that contains the above packages in
> subdirectories, it only picks up SUNWmozgm.
>
> So for some reason the others are not considered valid packages.

Are they files or dirs ?
What syntax are you using for pkgadd ?

>
> I obtained the packages via ftp through Netscape, then unzipped the tar
> archive file, and unpacked the file with no problems so I don't think
> there is anything wrong with the files. The top level directories for
> SUNWmozgm and SUNWmozmail both contain the same set of files. The pkgmap
> file for SUNWmozmail contains lines with keywords postinstall and
> preremove that aren't in the pkgmap file for SUNWmozgm, FWIW.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions on what to look for? A better place to take
> this problem?

Have you thought about using the packages from http://www.blastwave.org ?
Version 1.7.3

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